The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – 2Kindsa Love [Promo] (CASSETTE, UK)

21 October 1996 Mute
A1. 2Kindsa Love
A2. Fish Sauce
A3. Cool Vee
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Promo cassette in printed company insert. All three tracks are on Side A and the cassette label features printed text reading only “Jon Spencer”. Unusually the cover insert writes the band name with Blues Explosion in quotation marks.

2Kindsa Love features Thermos Malling of Doo Rag and was commercially released on pink vinyl, black vinyl and CD, taken from the album Now I Got Worry.

Promotional copies of the single were issued on cassette, video, as a white label 7″ single and in the US as a 7″ single with alternate artwork.

The CD single and promotional cassette include bonus tracks Fish Sauce (feat. Money Mark) and Cool Vee (feat. Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys), the two b-sides were also released as a two-track promo CD in France and the 7″ singles all include alternate b-side Let’s Smurf. All additional tracks would later be released on the 2010 expanded re-issue of Now I Got Worry.

The track Cool Vee has it’s roots in the songs 2 Brothers and Tojo Told Hitler which were recorded by R.L. Burnside with The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion for the A Ass Pocket of Whiskey album. Cool Vee also appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese release of Now I Got Worry.

The official music video was directed by Mike Mills who was in Butter 08 with Russell Simins also created an image titled “Jon Spencer Rock and Roll Singer”.

The video was also included on the Live Promo Video released by Matador Records in the US.

This single appeared at #26 on Melody Maker’s top 50 singles of year (dated: 21-28 December 1996) with the following text;

“26 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: 2 Kindsa Love (Mute)
Love? Filthy, throbbing, mean, 90 percent proof lust, that’s what this raw and dirty scrabble’n’howl was about.”

SONG CREDITS:
A1. 2Kindsa Love
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Spencer/Explosion (BMI)
Bang: Thermos Malling
Produced: Jon Spencer & Jim Waters
Recorded at Waterworks West
Engineer was Professor Saylor Breckenridge
Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk
Run Time: 3:02

A2. Fish Sauce
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Spencer/Explosion (BMI)
Mixed: Mario Caldato Jr
Recorded at G-Son, LA; and Waterworks West, Tuscon
Engineer: Professor Saylor Breckenridge
Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk
Fender Rhodes: Mark Ramos-Nishita
Run Time: 3:29

A3. Cool Vee
Writers: Spencer/Explosion
Published: Spencer/Explosion (BMI)
Produced: Jon Spencer & Jim Waters
Recorded at Waterworks West.
Engineer was Professor Saylor Breckenridge
Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk
Scratch: King AdRock
Run Time: 4:10

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